Today, Wednesday 26th August has been a hard day for the cyclists and almost everyone is dog tired and ready for bed. We set off from Madura this morning at 7.00am and arrived here at Border Village at 5.15pm. The bus odometer tells me that I drove 197km and the cyclists pedalled every bit of that. We had a little bit of assistance from the wind on occasions but mostly the wind was across our direction of travel and at one stage there was even a bit of a headwind. The Eucla Pass was a hill that nobody really wanted at the end of the day! Everyone made it up the hill but some did it quite slowly!
Breakfast tomorrow will be at 6.00am in the roadhouse and we will then be on our bikes. Jim B tells us that we lose 45 minutes just down the road when we change to South Australian time so we could be late arriving at Nullarbor Roadhouse tomorrow if the wind is unkind to us.
I told you yesterday about Trevor H having been diagnosed with Swine ’Flu. He has been more like his normal self today, but still not on the bike. It is good to see him looking somewhat better but he has a way to go yet.
It is interesting that one of the team with a Telstra NextG phone has been able to call his wife using that phone from here, but my NextG modem will not work. I guess there is a service for voice but not for data, and updating of the blog will just have to wait for a few more days. It was a nice thought!
Breakfast tomorrow will be at 6.00am in the roadhouse and we will then be on our bikes. Jim B tells us that we lose 45 minutes just down the road when we change to South Australian time so we could be late arriving at Nullarbor Roadhouse tomorrow if the wind is unkind to us.
I told you yesterday about Trevor H having been diagnosed with Swine ’Flu. He has been more like his normal self today, but still not on the bike. It is good to see him looking somewhat better but he has a way to go yet.
It is interesting that one of the team with a Telstra NextG phone has been able to call his wife using that phone from here, but my NextG modem will not work. I guess there is a service for voice but not for data, and updating of the blog will just have to wait for a few more days. It was a nice thought!
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